The Most Recent Tales Of The World: Radiant Mythology 3 Cameos Screenshotted

As previously reported, Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 has Sophie (Graces), Marta (Dawn of the New World), Will (Legendia), and Judas (Destiny 2) in the game. Here’s what they look like on PSP.

Please talk about *this game* instead of lamenting PS3 Tales games for a change.
Does anyone follow the Radiant Mythology series? Thoughts?

SolidusSnake

I appreciate the spirit of peace-making behind your comment, but this series is a kind of hodgepodge with characters from past Tales games, so if you can’t play the other Tales games it’s probably not very relevant.

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

I understand it’s fan-service, but I’m sure you can still play the game without knowing half the characters and still enjoy it. I remember introducing Super Smash Bros. 64 to my friends and many of them didn’t know anything about the characters but in the end they had fun anyway. I’m sure it didn’t seem as novel to them as it did to me but hey, a game’s a game, right?

But it’s not like NA can actually get RM3 anyway. And those who actually willing to play RM3 in Japanese, chances are they have played the other unlocalized games, and thus it’s not irrelevant for them.

Well, the way they have the Kanonnos designed, there’s only room for one more Radiant Mythology game (they follow the seasons: Pasca is Spring, Earhart is summer, Grassvalley is fall. So after RM4, if there is one, they’ll have to break the theme to keep going, which is a cue that they should make new concept if they want to keep doing crossover games.)

Also, the Kanonnos are actually all /different people/. Pasca’s World Tree seed became Granide (the world of RM2) and Kanonno Earhart is the human reincarnation of the original Pasca Kanonno. Which makes me really curious as to see how they’re going to explain Grassvalley’s connection to the previous two and what the reason behind having all three of them be playable is. It has the potential to be really interesting….. or too ridiculous for me to take seriously.

But yeah. Kanonno doesn’t get old. She gets replaced by a lookalike each game. Though by the third game, yes, she is old as in it feels like she’s been overused.

Ereek

The first game was a disaster, stay far, far away from it. The second game is much better and fixes many of the problems in the first.As for this game, I obviously haven’t played it yet, but the only thing I’m getting from these three new characters is:1. Sophie reminds me too much of Iris 2’s Fee to take her design seriously.2. Will was voiced by Cam Clarke in English. Clarke has a bad tendency to make me remember his voice alone and absolutely nothing about the character. Crispin Freeman does this to me, too. Can someone give me a rundown?

Yusaku_Matsuda70s

I’m kind of indifferent to Sophie’s design. Those ponytails are a bit much.

A rundown of…?

Ereek

His background, haha. Clarke’s voice is a huge distraction for me. I remember the voice itself and not the character.

Yui

From what I remember, Will was some sort of sheriff-type thing on the [Legacy?] island. He was constantly embroiled in spats with his daughter but he tried hard, and was also a scientist. =D

It’s cool. I’m just bored and wanted to facilitate some discussion. :P Thanks for the effort with the videos, but it seems like I have to log in…?

goronyan

yeah it requires to be registered sorry

epy

But… then I will have nothing to say …

Ok then, as mentioned by Ereek, the second game in the series is quite an improvement. Storywise it was adequate at best. The main selling point, besides of course using various characters from the Tales games in a very solid battle system, is to see the interaction of Tales characters that would otherwise never meet. I specially enjoyed the Viva Tales of! segment and quests. Also characters breaking the fourth wall and openly discussing their character archetypes, poll rankings and how they are treated by fans and developers (Veigue’s comment on being only treated as the guy that yells CLAIREEEEE all the time for example) are quite fun to watch.

While you may get enough fun out of the battle systemand , it is a game for fans of the Tales series, more so for the ones that have played pretty much every game in the series than the “casual” players that have gone maybe through, say, Symphonia and something else because of some of the fanservice elements heavily relying on your knowledge of the characters and the setting of their world.

Needless to say, I am very much looking forward to the title as it seems to improve further on the formula and adding even more characters.